Nginx URL proxy to server

Question

I'm trying to

• redirect all traffic from www.example.com and example.com to old-www.website.com

• proxy all traffic from example.com/forum (and www) to forum server @ 192.168.100.100

I've tried the following config but it keeps returning me to my old website When I remove the location / the forum is not loading and I'm getting 404's since the server is trying to load files @ example.com/ instead of example.com/forum

server { listen 80; server_name www.example.com example.com; location /forum/ { proxy_pass http://192.168.100.100/; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; } location / { return 302 $scheme://www.old-site.com; } } 

how can I fix this?

Answer 1

The issue is the extra / in your proxy_pass statement. This causes nginx to use / as the URI with your forum always.

Try this:

location ~ /forum(/.+)? { proxy_pass http://192.168.100.100$1; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; } 

Here I assume that you want the URL http://www.example.com/forum/something get proxied to http://192.168.100.100/something. Without the regular expression match and $1 in the proxy_pass, it would proxy to http://192.168.100.100/forum/something.

Answer 2

Try this, Here’s a very simple example that redirects clients to a new domain name:

server { listen 80; listen 443 ssl; server_name www.old-name.com; return 301 $scheme://www.new-name.com$request_uri; }